Killer industries
Government industrialist nexus and public apathy have become incentives for norm flounting industries in Gujarat
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No lead in Lanka
Sri Lanka is set to curb atmospheric lead pollution by introducing lead free petrol for its cars
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Blowing the lid
The Emmy Awards for Outstanding Investigative Journalism
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Patchwork economics
Is a free trade area for the Americas "band aid types" solution?
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Hotbeds of energy
Simmering rocks found several kilometres beneath the earth's surface hold the potential to meet our power needs
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Developing diversity
Isn t a good fillip to growth also cultural in nature?
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Shut down!
Forced by the Supreme Court, authorities crack down on industries that pollute the Yamuna river. Over 200 units are sealed; 900 more face closure
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Environmental business
NO ONE in the world would disagree that everyone should try to find ways and means to protect and improve the environment. But organisations are better equipped to do something concrete in this
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Scavenging off toxic metals
Using microorganisms to treat pollutants is a cheap eco friendly way of disposing waste, which is fast catching on.
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Waking up to a killer
They operate across international borders. There is no way transnational carmakers do not know that tiny particles from diesel emissions kill
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Hi tech exchange
Indian industries have created a forum where technological research organisations can come face to face with the world of commerce
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Pallor over El Dorado
Severe mercury contamination induced by gold hunters threatens Venezuela's eco system
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Starved of substance
No headway made at World Food Summit in accelerating efforts to eliminate hunger
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Waste to energy plant in Vijaywada shuts down
in yet another indictment of incineration technology, the waste-to-energy plant at Vijayawada recently stopped operations. There is now no functional incineration-based waste-to-energy plant in the
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Next time a report on people, please!
BY coincidence, I happened to read two recent reports together. They were UNFPA's State of the World Population 1992 and Towards a Green World by Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain. Both are lucidly
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Reshaping the future
THE stability of the ecosystem on a global scale has become a central concern in the post-Cold War era. This crisis cannot be resolved by wishing away endemic consumerism or expecting governments
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Servicing The Corporate Underbelly
The murky dealings of the world s largest public relations agency
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Accounting green doles
THE World Bank's (wB) staff have recently prepared a report -Mainstreaming the environment -docu- menting the progress made by the Bank in its effort to emerge as an active partner in implementing
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Stalking plague
it is heartening to note that in the present decade, the intellectuals and academicians of the nation are not pontificating and publishing in just the realm of abstract theory but are directly
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Key issues in Agro Climatic Regional Planning
• Plan priorities ACRP assumes that once land and water resources are developed, the desired levels of yield and productivity will be achieved. Soil conservation and reclamation, irrigation